@maestroask won the first Crazyhouse Tournament on Hive!

Dear Chess fans,

yesterday a Hivechess fun tournament was played, a 4+1 Crazyhouse arena!
16 players were crazy brave enough to join the competition, for some of which it was the very first experience with this chess variant! So kudos to all the participants!

No surprise that the winner was the only titled player in the field, Hive account@maestroask (Odnoobraz_bcm). Behind him followed the usual suspects, Hive account@lucianosky (Pavarotty), Hive account@samostically and also Hive account@kreur managed to get into the price ranks (and I got the unlucky 5^th place 🙁).

If you like funny checkmate positions, then Crazyhouse is for you! Many games yesterday, maybe even most of them ended in checkmates, like this one from a game from me (Black) against Hivechess veteran Hive account@rodrook: In the previous move I gave a check on e8 and instead of blocking it with any of his tons of pieces in the pool my opponent went to f3 with his king - just to get mated with a dropped knight!

https://lichess.org/vnAbtraP/black#76

But later Hive account@rodrook got his well-deserved revenge. In this position with White I kind of ran out of steam, not seeing any good continuation of my attack (with only a bishop to drop).

Instead of dropping the bishop near the king to prevent the storm coming I fatally blundered B@h4?? and after 2 moves I was mated by 2 well dropped pieces. So fast can it go!

https://lichess.org/gSCuWDo5/white#46

What was your funniest checkmate?

Result table:

Link to the tournament: https://lichess.org/tournament/Q6sFw8xQ

7 Hive were sent to Hive account@maestroask,
4 Hive to Hive account@lucianosky,
2 Hive to Hive account@samostically and
1 Hive to Hive account@kreur

Congratulations!

Do you you want to see this variant more often, even in a normal season? Let me know your thoughts!

Season 14 will start in 2 weeks, on Dec., 2^nd. You can mark it already in your calendar!
Until then, have a nice time and keep practicing!